Notre Dame is a fantastic school, with a robust culture and great programs in engineering, business, and the humanities. If you’ve been waitlisted by ND, we’re sure this was not the outcome you were hoping for, but that doesn’t mean you’re done for. Take some time to have the feelings we’re pretty sure you’re having, but then come back here for some action items.
What to Do if You've Been Waitlisted by Georgetown University 2025
What to Do if You've Been Waitlisted by Vanderbilt 2025
Waitlist decisions are, as a rule, not good news. They aren’t the worst news you can get from a college, which would be a rejection, but if you’re reading this post you are either disappointed by a waitlist decision from Vanderbilt or trying to plan ahead just in case the next time you open up your email you have a waitlist decision waiting for you. In this post, we’ll prepare you for what comes next, and how to improve your chances of getting into Vanderbilt off of the waitlist.
What to Do if You've Been Waitlisted by Carnegie Mellon 2025
Carnegie Mellon (CMU) is an amazing STEM school with a reputation for being innovative, friendly, and full of motivated students. Getting waitlisted from a school that awesome is hard, and we’re sure you’re feeling bummed about it. While that’s totally valid, and we encourage you to take a few days to process, we want you to know you’re not out of the game yet.
What to Do if You've Been Waitlisted by The University of Virginia 2025
What to Do if You've Been Waitlisted by the University of Michigan 2025
If you were waitlisted by Mich, that’s disappointing — but it shouldn’t be devastating. The University of Michigan is now one of the most sought after state-school acceptances in the country, and for good reason. The university is fabulous, and widely respected. As a state school, they highly prioritize in-state students and so the acceptance statistics for Mich are pretty misleading if you are from outside of the state of Michigan. It’s been reported that the in-state acceptance rate for Mich is as high as 40%, while the published overall acceptance rate for the Fall of 2023 was , which tells us that the out-of-state acceptance rate is much lower than that. So, it’s hard to get into Mich. It’s easier to get onto the waitlist. That same year, for first years beginning in the fall of 2023, they offered a spot on the waitlist to more than 30% of applicants. That’s pretty crazy.
What to Do if You've Been Waitlisted by New York University (NYU) 2025
We get it – your Big City Big Dreams moment has been waitlisted, and you’re feeling bummed out. NYU has gotten increasingly competitive over the last decade and shows no signs of slowing down, and the increased demand means less spots for tons of deserving kids. Getting waitlisted doesn’t mean you’re out of contention, and there are things you can do to to help you get off the waitlist and into Washington Square Park.
What to Do if You've Been Waitlisted by The University of Chicago 2025
If you are reading this, you were either waitlisted by the University of Chicago or are very committed to planning ahead. Either way, we’ve got you. In this post, we’ll give you the tools you need to charge a successful future in college, with or without the University of Chicago — but hopefully with if you play the waitlist right.
What to Do if You've Been Waitlisted by The University of Texas at Austin 2025
The University of Texas at Austin, or UT Austin, has become an extremely popular university for students around the country, and globally, not simply in Texas. As a Texas state school, though, the university prioritizes applicants who are residents of the state. As a result, there are far more applicants, and especially out-of-state applicants, than UT Austin can admit. In this post, we’re going to break down what you need to do if you recently received a waitlist offer from UT Austin, and what else you need to do to close out your college admissions experience strong.
What to Do if You've Been Waitlisted by Penn 2025
What to Do if You've Been Waitlisted by Brown 2025
If you are reading this, you were probably waitlisted by Brown. Receiving a waitlist decision is a bummer, but it’s also a situation you can make the most off. Whereas a rejection is a closed door, being offered a spot on a waiting list is more like being stopped right before the threshold. You aren’t through, and you may never get through, but the chance is still there. The key, of course, is to not leave it up to chance.
What to Do if You've Been Waitlisted by Cornell 2025
If you were waitlisted by Cornell, you aren’t alone. Cornell offers a wild number of applicants, in 2023, a spot on the waitlist. Out of 8,282 students offered a spot on the waitlist in 2023, 6,166 accepted that offer. This is twice as many students as they expect to enroll in the first-year class. We can’t quite understand what the purpose is of having such a deep waitlist, but it is what Cornell has done for years. Ultimately, for Fall 2023, 362, or 5.9% of students on the waitlist were accepted.
What to Do if You've Been Waitlisted by Dartmouth College 2025
Dartmouth is the crunchy Ivy, they even have their own forest! And if you’re here, you’ve been waitlisted from Dartmouth and their forest, too. We know that you might be feeling super bummed about this, so we want you to take a few days to feel how you feel and come back ready to go. Because we have some action items for you.
What to Do if You've Been Waitlisted by Columbia University 2025
Columbia is a competitive school – you know this, of course. Last cycle, Columbia accepted 3.85% of students, down slightly from 3.9%. We only know this because of data published in the school paper, because Columbia does not fill out the Common Data Set (CDS). And because they don’t fill out the CDS, we also don’t know the exact numbers around their waitlist data. We do know, from looking at their peer schools and past experience, that their waitlist acceptance rate is probably around, or less than, 4%. Don’t fear, though, we’ve helped lots of students get off the waitlist and into Columbia.
What to Do if You've Been Waitlisted by Stanford 2025
If you are on the receiving end of a waitlist offer by Stanford, you aren’t alone. We know that isn’t exactly reassuring, but with a first-year acceptance rate of only 4% nothing about Stanford is reassuring. But that doesn’t mean that you should give up all hope of moving into a dorm at Stanford in a few months. Before we get into what comes next, let’s look at the numbers.
What to Do if You've Been Waitlisted by Yale 2025
What to Do if You've Been Waitlisted by Harvard University 2025
Harvard: there’s not much new we can say about this school. It’s maybe the most famous school in the world, and it’s also one of the most competitive. Last cycle, Harvard had a 3.6% acceptance rate, which is just so incredibly low. If you’ve been waitlisted by Harvard, we know you’re now worried about whatever the waitlist acceptance might be like. You also might feel a little rejected or sad, and that’s totally okay. Take a day or two to be sad, and then come right back here for some action items.
Ultimate Guide to Letters of Continued Interest (LOCI) 2025
Getting waitlisted or deferred from your dream school is hard. We know it’s hard! You feel rejected, but it’s this weird non-rejection rejection that can leave you feeling lost and confused. And while a lot of things in college admissions are totally out of your control, there is something you can do if you’ve been waitlisted or deferred to give yourself another chance. A letter of continued interest, sometimes known as a waitlist letter or deferral letter, is one of the few, actionable things you can control when admissions decisions seem so out of your control. It’s your only chance to make a good second impression, and we help students write them every single year.
What to Do if You've Been Waitlisted by Colorado College 2024
Colorado College is a unique school located in Colorado Springs, Colorado. That’s a lot of Colorado. We don’t even think Colorado sounds like a word anymore. Anyways, you’re here because you got waitlisted by Colorado College (CC for short), and you want to know your odds of getting off the waitlist and how to get off the waitlist.
What to Do If You’ve Been Waitlisted by Carnegie Mellon 2024
Carnegie Mellon is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. And it’s one of the best out there for STEM programs. It’s a highly-competitive school with an acceptance rate around 11%. And while students do get waitlisted, it’s really tough to get off the Carnegie Mellon waitlist. All waitlists are hard to get off. But according to , Carnegie Mellon is one of the top 10 hardest schools in America to get off the waitlist. For the 2022-2023 year, 8,986 applicants were wait-listed. 4,652 accepted positions on the wait list and just 43 were admitted.